No legal or financial strategist at OpenAI or Google is going to be worried about buying a couple months or years of fewer deepfakes out in the world as a whole.
Their concern is liability and brand. With the opportunity to stake out territory in an extremely promising new market, they don't want their brand associated with anything awkward to defend right now.
There may be a few idealist stewards who have the (debatable) anxieties you do and are advocating as you say, but they'd still need to be getting sign off from the more coldly strategic $$$$$ people.
I am almost certain the federal government is working with these companies to dampen its full power for the public until we get more accustomed to its impact and are more able to search for credible sources of truth.
Their concern is liability and brand. With the opportunity to stake out territory in an extremely promising new market, they don't want their brand associated with anything awkward to defend right now.
There may be a few idealist stewards who have the (debatable) anxieties you do and are advocating as you say, but they'd still need to be getting sign off from the more coldly strategic $$$$$ people.